Dear Liviu and Paul, many thanks for answering.
Up to a certain extent I can spend efforts and time playing around in
building the tools I need to work.
My major concern are the students. If I want them to concentrate on the
work, building the tools should be BESIDE THE POINT!
Maybe Pauls suggestion could help in that case.
Roberto
Il 09/07/2010 01:26, Liviu Andronic ha scritto:
Dear Roberto
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Scotti Roberto<[email protected]> wrote:
stimulates a very basic question: "Is it possible to avoid building from
source using R in Kubuntu?
Yes.
I shifted over from MS only recently. In Windows I used to easily download
packages and use them.
Now, every time I downloaded a new piece, I had the impression that building
from source was necessary.
Am I wrong?
No. Because of the huge diversity of Linux platforms it is not
practical to provide binaries for all or even most of them. Hence, as
a general rule, under Linux you need to compile R packages.
On Debian-based distros you can circumvent and use cran2deb (reference
provided by Paul). Beware though that cran2deb specifically targets
Debian testing i386 and amd64 (support for the latter is temporarily
dead). Dirk has repeatedly warned against using them on Ubuntus, but
there were reports of successful usage so you might want to try it,
too.
Regards
Liviu
Il 09/07/2010 00:36, Paul Johnson ha scritto:
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Scotti Roberto<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello.
I understand that, to build from source, you need to have all sources (in
the right place and with the right names, and so on),
but your sentence,
To build from source you need to have development files installed.
stimulates a very basic question: "Is it possible to avoid building from
source using R in Kubuntu?
Personally, my opinion is if you want somebody else to do your work
for you, you should have stayed with Windows.
Luckily for you, some other people are nice and want to build packages
for you. There is a deb archive called "cran2deb" that does build
many packages, there's no "guarantee" they will work with all the
stuff you have installed.
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/useR2009cran2deb.pdf
Here's the reason there's no guarantee. Nobody can anticipate whatever
changes you have made to your system--that's the beauty of Linux. So
if you build your own, they always fit. But if you stick with default
everything, the cran2deb will work.
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